coming up: Wednesday vocabulary quiz...another copy below
In class: more commonly misused words. Due at close of class (copy of class handout below)
Plot summary practice....this will be collected at the beginning of class on Tuesday. (copy below)
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Name______________________________ Some more practice
with commonly misused words. Please rewrite the sentences, and take your time
to understand the meaning / part of speech needed.
Remember: affect
is a verb; effect is a noun
everyday means “commonplace,
daily, or routine.”
every day as two words means
“each day.”
beside, with no “s” at the
end, is used only as a preposition, which means there is
always a noun following it. It means either “next to” or “compared to”
besides
with an “s” means in addition to, or except
to connote is to imply a
meaning or condition; to give a hint
to denote is to define
exactly; to denote is to refer to something outright.
to imply and infer are
opposites, like a throw and a catch.
to imply is to hint at
something
to infer is to make an educated guess.
(The speaker does the implying, and the listener does the inferring.)
manner is (1) a way of doing
something, (2) a bearing or demeanor
manor -main house of a large country
estate.
1. Smoking
(affects / effects) the heart.
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2. To
some, the word school (connotes / denotes ) confinement.
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3. One
(affect / effect) of deregulation will be a loss of control.
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4. The
antibiotic had no (affect / effect) on my sinus infection.
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4. When politicians answer questions, hesitation may
(connote / denote ) weakness or
ignorance on a topic.
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5. Based
upon all of the facts presented to them, the students (implied inferred ) that the experiment was a success.
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6. Carla
never gets annoyed by such an (everyday / every day) frustration.
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7. Personally,
I find going to the store an (everyday / every day) adventure.
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7. I
did not mean to (imply / infer ) to you that I don't trust you.
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8. Jaylen
found that (everyday / every day) he needed to reboot her computer.
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9. Fuel
(connotes / denotes ) a substance burned to produce heat or power.
10. Phil
did not (imply /infer ) anything from
Joe's remarks.
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11.
Glendale (manner manor ) is the former home of a well-known
author.
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12. I
found my lost keys sitting inside (beside / besides ) the microwave.
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13. (Beside
/ Besides ) my occupation as a janitor, I work nights in a factory and weekends
at McDonalds.
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14. His
ego was insulted, but (beside / besides) that, he was not really hurt.
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15. What
do you expect me to (imply/ infer) from
your tone of voice?
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16. In
a (manner / manor ) of speaking, you are correct.
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Please
rewrite the following sentences, correcting, if needed and punctuating.
17. He
promised to reform however a few days later he forgot everything.
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18. John
is a former police officer, he now stays home with his children.
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19. If
you trim the tree it will look better but if you chop it down we will miss it.
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20. Time
passes very quickly these days it seems as if you were here just yesterday.
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21. As
cucumbers grow their vines need room to expand.
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22. Martin
Luther King did not intend to become a preacher, originally he wanted to be a
lawyer.
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The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Part I
We have finished part 1 of The Ancient Mariner in class. To
check for your understanding of the plot, reread the following stanzas and
write a two to three sentence synopsis (summary) of what has happened so far.
Be sure to include details of the setting and characters. Write on the back of this sheet. I will collect this at the start of class
tomorrow.
1. It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
`By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
2. The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
Mayst hear the merry din.'
3. He holds him with his skinny hand,
"There was a ship," quoth he.
`Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
Eftsoons his hand dropped he.
4. He holds him with his glittering eye -
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.
5. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.
6. "The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.
7. The sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.
8. Higher and higher every day,
Till over the mast at noon -"
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
For he heard the loud bassoon.
9. The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy.
10. The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.
11. "And now the storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong:
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
12. With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And foward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And southward aye we fled.
13. And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
14. And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken -
The ice was all between.
15. The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
16. At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.
17. It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through!
18. And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!
19. In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white moonshine."
20. `God save thee, ancient Mariner,
From the fiends that plague thee thus! -
Why look'st thou so?' -"With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross."
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Vocabulary quiz, Wednesday, December 6
1.kin (noun)- one's family and relations.
2. kirk (noun)- church (most often used in Scotland)
3. tyrannous (adjective)- unjustly severe (think of a tyrant)
4. prow (noun)- the portion of a ship's bow above water.
5.shroud (noun)- a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial; a thing that envelops
6. to aver (verb)- state or assert to be the case.
7 7. furrow (noun)- long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow or a rut or groove; note that you may have a furrow (noun) on your brow and you may furrow (verb) your brow
8 8. agape (adjective) - agog, wide open, especially with surprise or wonder; gobsmacked
9. gossamers (noun)- a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs; used to refer to something very light, delicate. (think fairy wings)
1 10. spectre-bark (noun) - ghost ship
11. vespers (noun)- the sixth of the canonical hours (times one was required to pray)
12. skiff (noun)- a flat bottomed boat.
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